Optimal Strategy for Multiple Diagnostic Tests

Stefan Felder () and Thomas Mayrhofer ()
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Stefan Felder: University of Basel
Thomas Mayrhofer: Stralsund University of Applied Sciences

Chapter Chapter 7 in Medical Decision Making, 2022, pp 147-172 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We deal with the optimal test strategy if multiple diagnostic tests are available and can be carried out simultaneously or sequentially. This complicates the task for the decision maker. They have to decide on a positivity criterion for the composite test. This can be either conjunctive (positive if the results of all tests are positive and negative in all other cases) or disjunctive (negative if the results of all tests are negative and positive in all other cases). The physician must also decide on the order of the tests if they are to be carried out sequentially. If testing is potentially harmful, it is easy to understand that sequential testing is always preferable to parallel testing.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-64654-0_7

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